Rob Inkpen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 275993 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rob Inkpen |
| NOMBRES | Rob |
| APELLIDO | Inkpen |
| FIRMA | INKPEN R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1510-6911 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Othering' by Consent? Public Attitudes to Covid-19 Restrictions and the Role of the Police in Managing Compliance in England
The aim of this paper is to consider the relationship between an emergent decay of social trust created by the Covid-19 pandemic and the formation of “in” and “out” groups. Data from 37 extensive semi-structured interviews with members of the public in England found that identifying the “other” through normative conceptions of “security and order” was used by participants to legitimize their own presence within the “in” group, while self-reported…
Giving the right service to different people’
The suspension of certain civil liberties and the extension of police powers to combat the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic has provoked concerns about the longer-term implications of the pandemic on police legitimacy. Drawing upon pathways to police legitimacy identified within the literature, this paper examines police officers’ perceptions of the impacts on, and potential challenges to, police legitimacy arising from the pandemic. Qualitative i…
The values of open data
This paper explores the values of open data in the context of differential power relations in academia and, in particular, the significance of open data policies for early career researchers and career development
Environmental beliefs and their role in environmental behaviours of undergraduate students
A survey of the environmental world-views of undergraduate students found that their views of the environment could be reduced, as had been found by Price et al. (J Environ Psychol, 37, 8–20 2014) into the ‘as elastic’ and the ‘environment as ductile ’ . The ‘environment as elastic’ summarizes a range of views that focus on the unpredictable nature of the environment and its ability to recover from the impact of human activities. Unlike Price et …
New technologies and the political economy of geomorphology
New technologies enable high‐resolution monitoring techniques and the generation of big data and have been heralded as increasing the depth of our understanding of geomorphic phenomena. These technologies, however, also provide us with a convenient entry point into the increasingly constraining political economy of geomorphology. Building on the work of Stuart Lane and of critical physical geographers, this paper traces and examines the multiple …
The “smugness” of geographers
Caricatures of physical and human geographers are both very smug; one in their belief that they have direct and practical contact with reality, the other in the belief that their range of philosophical approaches provides a more nuanced understanding of the complexities of reality. Breaking down these caricatures is essential to configuring Geography as a discipline with something important to say about environmental issues facing humanity. A key…
Traditional Use of Shore Platforms
Shore platforms and salinas in the Mediterranean region have a long-standing relationship, rooted in the traditional practice of salt making. On small islands with limited natural resources, the production of salt from seawater, through insolation and intense human endeavour, offered numerous economic benefits. Salt has been a foremost natural resource for millennia with a range of uses from preserving edible foods to cooking, cleaning, laundry, …
Using rates of gravestone decay to reconstruct atmospheric sulphur dioxide levels
Decay losses from marble gravestones spanning the last 130 years were measured using the lead lettering index ( LLI ). The relationship between decay loss and gravestone age can be described using a power function of the form decay loss = a(age)b. For locations where decay is likely to have been dominated by ‘normal’ rainfall, the value of b tends to 1, while for locations where decay losses were higher in the past b tends towards a value of 2. U…
Reconstructing past atmospheric pollution levels using gravestone erosion rates
Converting the erosion rates derived from gravestones into erosion rates for specific time periods is possible by averaging loss data for gravestones for that time period. This information can be used with Lipfert's damage function to postdict levels of atmospheric pollution for specific locations for specific time periods. A correction factor for stone type, derived from the literature, needs to be applied to the damage function. The derived sul…
The Topography of Historical Contingency
Starting with Ben-Menahem's definition of historical contingency as sensitivity to variations in initial conditions, we suggest that historical events and processes can be thought of as forming a complex landscape of contingency and necessity. We suggest three different ways of extending and elaborating Ben-Menahem's concepts: (1) By supplementing them with a notion of historical disturbance; (2) by pointing out that contingency and necessity are…
Explaining the past
Abductive reasoning is the central form of explanation in environmental reconstruction. This paper outlines the nature of the abductive method restating it in Bayesian terms, ie, in terms of a priori belief based on context and the relations between multiple proxies. A key role within this working method is played by evidence and, in particular, proxies of the past in the explanatory framework. Proxies, whether singularly or as groups, are interp…
Topographic relations
This paper considers whether the deployment of a topographical metaphor may add value to the recent discussion of networked relations. The paper discusses how viewing relations as part of a relational landscape may add a third dimension to the discussion by allowing an appreciation of the strength, or entrenchment, of relations, and how these entrenchments impact on the development of new relations and the resistance to watershed events. The heur…
Interpretation of erosion rates on rock surfaces
Simple linear regression is used to interpret erosion rates on two shore platforms from the Kaikoura Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand. Using this analysis it is suggested that measured rates could be viewed as representatives of populations of erosion rates moving about a changing fitness landscape. The potential of such a view for understanding erosion rates is outlined
The Royal Geographical Society and the development of surveying 1870–1914
The RGS, exploration and Empire and the contested nature of surveying
In 1879, the RGS started courses in practical surveying based on the methods used by navigators. Subsequently, RGS courses, increasingly under the influence of former members of the Survey of India, changed in character. At the same time as the nature of appropriate surveying was being negotiated within the RGS, the debate over the academic nature of geography also took shape. The development of the ‘new’ geography reflected the conflicts within …
Fitness spaces and their potential for visualizing change in the physical landscape
The use of the metaphors of general fitness and N‐K spaces can assist in the understanding of the development of the physical landscape. Different modes of change can be viewed as different types of movement in, and distortions of, these phase spaces. Visualized in this manner landscape change can be viewed as both channelized, constrained and random
Atmospheric Pollution and Stone Degradation in Nineteenth Century Exeter
Over the nineteenth century the spatial pattern of coal use in Exeter changes little, particularly near to the cathedral. Localised sources of pollution, such as the heating of the cathedral itself may, in this context, be important sources of potentially damaging pollutants. By the end of the nineteenth century coal use in Exeter of approximately 33,000 tons is at a similar level to Oxford. Restoration and repair costs vary over the nineteenth c…
On the Non‐Necessity of Quantum Mechanics in Geomorphology
A low‐tech approach to teaching physical systems
Different types of system behaviour can be illustrated using simple and cheap physical models. By using the idea of a landscape of system behaviour the models can be used to illustrate complex concepts in a familiar context. Use of these models is restricted by the need for rapid feedback from students to ensure that the concept rather than the model is the focus of understanding
The Topography of Historical Contingency
Starting with Ben-Menahem's definition of historical contingency as sensitivity to variations in initial conditions, we suggest that historical events and processes can be thought of as forming a complex landscape of contingency and necessity. We suggest three different ways of extending and elaborating Ben-Menahem's concepts: (1) By supplementing them with a notion of historical disturbance; (2) by pointing out that contingency and necessity are…
Giving the right service to different people’
The suspension of certain civil liberties and the extension of police powers to combat the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic has provoked concerns about the longer-term implications of the pandemic on police legitimacy. Drawing upon pathways to police legitimacy identified within the literature, this paper examines police officers’ perceptions of the impacts on, and potential challenges to, police legitimacy arising from the pandemic. Qualitative i…
Topographic relations
This paper considers whether the deployment of a topographical metaphor may add value to the recent discussion of networked relations. The paper discusses how viewing relations as part of a relational landscape may add a third dimension to the discussion by allowing an appreciation of the strength, or entrenchment, of relations, and how these entrenchments impact on the development of new relations and the resistance to watershed events. The heur…
Fitness spaces and their potential for visualizing change in the physical landscape
The use of the metaphors of general fitness and N‐K spaces can assist in the understanding of the development of the physical landscape. Different modes of change can be viewed as different types of movement in, and distortions of, these phase spaces. Visualized in this manner landscape change can be viewed as both channelized, constrained and random
The values of open data
This paper explores the values of open data in the context of differential power relations in academia and, in particular, the significance of open data policies for early career researchers and career development
The Royal Geographical Society and the development of surveying 1870–1914
The RGS, exploration and Empire and the contested nature of surveying
In 1879, the RGS started courses in practical surveying based on the methods used by navigators. Subsequently, RGS courses, increasingly under the influence of former members of the Survey of India, changed in character. At the same time as the nature of appropriate surveying was being negotiated within the RGS, the debate over the academic nature of geography also took shape. The development of the ‘new’ geography reflected the conflicts within …
Othering' by Consent? Public Attitudes to Covid-19 Restrictions and the Role of the Police in Managing Compliance in England
The aim of this paper is to consider the relationship between an emergent decay of social trust created by the Covid-19 pandemic and the formation of “in” and “out” groups. Data from 37 extensive semi-structured interviews with members of the public in England found that identifying the “other” through normative conceptions of “security and order” was used by participants to legitimize their own presence within the “in” group, while self-reported…
The “smugness” of geographers
Caricatures of physical and human geographers are both very smug; one in their belief that they have direct and practical contact with reality, the other in the belief that their range of philosophical approaches provides a more nuanced understanding of the complexities of reality. Breaking down these caricatures is essential to configuring Geography as a discipline with something important to say about environmental issues facing humanity. A key…
Reconstructing past atmospheric pollution levels using gravestone erosion rates
Converting the erosion rates derived from gravestones into erosion rates for specific time periods is possible by averaging loss data for gravestones for that time period. This information can be used with Lipfert's damage function to postdict levels of atmospheric pollution for specific locations for specific time periods. A correction factor for stone type, derived from the literature, needs to be applied to the damage function. The derived sul…
Atmospheric Pollution and Stone Degradation in Nineteenth Century Exeter
Over the nineteenth century the spatial pattern of coal use in Exeter changes little, particularly near to the cathedral. Localised sources of pollution, such as the heating of the cathedral itself may, in this context, be important sources of potentially damaging pollutants. By the end of the nineteenth century coal use in Exeter of approximately 33,000 tons is at a similar level to Oxford. Restoration and repair costs vary over the nineteenth c…
On the Non‐Necessity of Quantum Mechanics in Geomorphology
New technologies and the political economy of geomorphology
New technologies enable high‐resolution monitoring techniques and the generation of big data and have been heralded as increasing the depth of our understanding of geomorphic phenomena. These technologies, however, also provide us with a convenient entry point into the increasingly constraining political economy of geomorphology. Building on the work of Stuart Lane and of critical physical geographers, this paper traces and examines the multiple …
A low‐tech approach to teaching physical systems
Different types of system behaviour can be illustrated using simple and cheap physical models. By using the idea of a landscape of system behaviour the models can be used to illustrate complex concepts in a familiar context. Use of these models is restricted by the need for rapid feedback from students to ensure that the concept rather than the model is the focus of understanding
Atmospheric Pollution and Stone Degradation in Nineteenth Century Exeter
Over the nineteenth century the spatial pattern of coal use in Exeter changes little, particularly near to the cathedral. Localised sources of pollution, such as the heating of the cathedral itself may, in this context, be important sources of potentially damaging pollutants. By the end of the nineteenth century coal use in Exeter of approximately 33,000 tons is at a similar level to Oxford. Restoration and repair costs vary over the nineteenth c…
On the Non‐Necessity of Quantum Mechanics in Geomorphology
Fitness spaces and their potential for visualizing change in the physical landscape
The use of the metaphors of general fitness and N‐K spaces can assist in the understanding of the development of the physical landscape. Different modes of change can be viewed as different types of movement in, and distortions of, these phase spaces. Visualized in this manner landscape change can be viewed as both channelized, constrained and random
The RGS, exploration and Empire and the contested nature of surveying
In 1879, the RGS started courses in practical surveying based on the methods used by navigators. Subsequently, RGS courses, increasingly under the influence of former members of the Survey of India, changed in character. At the same time as the nature of appropriate surveying was being negotiated within the RGS, the debate over the academic nature of geography also took shape. The development of the ‘new’ geography reflected the conflicts within …
The Royal Geographical Society and the development of surveying 1870–1914
Topographic relations
This paper considers whether the deployment of a topographical metaphor may add value to the recent discussion of networked relations. The paper discusses how viewing relations as part of a relational landscape may add a third dimension to the discussion by allowing an appreciation of the strength, or entrenchment, of relations, and how these entrenchments impact on the development of new relations and the resistance to watershed events. The heur…
Interpretation of erosion rates on rock surfaces
Simple linear regression is used to interpret erosion rates on two shore platforms from the Kaikoura Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand. Using this analysis it is suggested that measured rates could be viewed as representatives of populations of erosion rates moving about a changing fitness landscape. The potential of such a view for understanding erosion rates is outlined
Explaining the past
Abductive reasoning is the central form of explanation in environmental reconstruction. This paper outlines the nature of the abductive method restating it in Bayesian terms, ie, in terms of a priori belief based on context and the relations between multiple proxies. A key role within this working method is played by evidence and, in particular, proxies of the past in the explanatory framework. Proxies, whether singularly or as groups, are interp…
The Topography of Historical Contingency
Starting with Ben-Menahem's definition of historical contingency as sensitivity to variations in initial conditions, we suggest that historical events and processes can be thought of as forming a complex landscape of contingency and necessity. We suggest three different ways of extending and elaborating Ben-Menahem's concepts: (1) By supplementing them with a notion of historical disturbance; (2) by pointing out that contingency and necessity are…
Reconstructing past atmospheric pollution levels using gravestone erosion rates
Converting the erosion rates derived from gravestones into erosion rates for specific time periods is possible by averaging loss data for gravestones for that time period. This information can be used with Lipfert's damage function to postdict levels of atmospheric pollution for specific locations for specific time periods. A correction factor for stone type, derived from the literature, needs to be applied to the damage function. The derived sul…
Traditional Use of Shore Platforms
Shore platforms and salinas in the Mediterranean region have a long-standing relationship, rooted in the traditional practice of salt making. On small islands with limited natural resources, the production of salt from seawater, through insolation and intense human endeavour, offered numerous economic benefits. Salt has been a foremost natural resource for millennia with a range of uses from preserving edible foods to cooking, cleaning, laundry, …
Using rates of gravestone decay to reconstruct atmospheric sulphur dioxide levels
Decay losses from marble gravestones spanning the last 130 years were measured using the lead lettering index ( LLI ). The relationship between decay loss and gravestone age can be described using a power function of the form decay loss = a(age)b. For locations where decay is likely to have been dominated by ‘normal’ rainfall, the value of b tends to 1, while for locations where decay losses were higher in the past b tends towards a value of 2. U…
New technologies and the political economy of geomorphology
New technologies enable high‐resolution monitoring techniques and the generation of big data and have been heralded as increasing the depth of our understanding of geomorphic phenomena. These technologies, however, also provide us with a convenient entry point into the increasingly constraining political economy of geomorphology. Building on the work of Stuart Lane and of critical physical geographers, this paper traces and examines the multiple …
The “smugness” of geographers
Caricatures of physical and human geographers are both very smug; one in their belief that they have direct and practical contact with reality, the other in the belief that their range of philosophical approaches provides a more nuanced understanding of the complexities of reality. Breaking down these caricatures is essential to configuring Geography as a discipline with something important to say about environmental issues facing humanity. A key…
Environmental beliefs and their role in environmental behaviours of undergraduate students
A survey of the environmental world-views of undergraduate students found that their views of the environment could be reduced, as had been found by Price et al. (J Environ Psychol, 37, 8–20 2014) into the ‘as elastic’ and the ‘environment as ductile ’ . The ‘environment as elastic’ summarizes a range of views that focus on the unpredictable nature of the environment and its ability to recover from the impact of human activities. Unlike Price et …
The values of open data
This paper explores the values of open data in the context of differential power relations in academia and, in particular, the significance of open data policies for early career researchers and career development
Giving the right service to different people’
The suspension of certain civil liberties and the extension of police powers to combat the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic has provoked concerns about the longer-term implications of the pandemic on police legitimacy. Drawing upon pathways to police legitimacy identified within the literature, this paper examines police officers’ perceptions of the impacts on, and potential challenges to, police legitimacy arising from the pandemic. Qualitative i…
Othering' by Consent? Public Attitudes to Covid-19 Restrictions and the Role of the Police in Managing Compliance in England
The aim of this paper is to consider the relationship between an emergent decay of social trust created by the Covid-19 pandemic and the formation of “in” and “out” groups. Data from 37 extensive semi-structured interviews with members of the public in England found that identifying the “other” through normative conceptions of “security and order” was used by participants to legitimize their own presence within the “in” group, while self-reported…
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